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Patricio Swayze

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That indeed looks like snek pron.  You can also sign up for the Central Texas Snake ID facebook page.  The admins identify snakes and have people that can be contacted for relocation.  It is a great site if you want to learn to identify snakes.  Those two are plain-bellied water snakes as identified above.  Not venomous, but will defensively strike and bite.  

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13 hours ago, Hammerin Hank said:

There’s 2 of em. I’m at the baseball game but my wife and the boy went home early. She just sent these pics. Is this snake porn?

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how long before baby sneks?

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14 hours ago, Hammerin Hank said:

There’s 2 of em. I’m at the baseball game but my wife and the boy went home early. She just sent these pics. Is this snake porn?

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This is what happens when you leave Barry White playing on your external speakers.  I'm beginning to think you're doing this on purpose. 

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2 hours ago, Lat22 said:

ID please. I’m not at home and this is around the pool. 
 

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Broad Banded Water snek.  Exact same as the one posted on page 60.  Awesome snek, had one as a pet for almost four years.  Fed him guppies, and watching how he'd eat was freaking amazing.

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1 hour ago, Homesickhorn said:

This is what happens when you leave Barry White playing on your external speakers.  I'm beginning to think you're doing this on purpose. 

That's true.  The question is why his wife was playing Barry White while he was at a baseball game . . . well, not so much of a question as an observation.

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6 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Nerodia (watersnake). But damn, that is a weird one.

I actually blew by one on the trail Sunday pretty similar to that, with a bit more red in it, or on top of it, stretched out parallel to the trail.

They sure can do the pit viper head.  

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Got a text from my neighbor Sunday morning, asking for advice on how to handle a big snake on his porch. I put on pants and walked on over. His whole family was a bit freaked, because it had been crawling up the front door when they got home from HEB.
It had crawled down to the actual porch itself - pretty 3.5 foot rat snake.
I told him they could just poke it with a stick to get it to move along - he says, umm, how?
I take a stick, lift the snake gently, snake gets a bit pissed and rears up. I let him calm down, then move him along, he slithers around the side of the house.
I remind the neighbor that’s a good snake, you want him around. If you ever need to clear him out, now you know how.
It still kind of amazes me how some people have a visceral fear of all snakes, but it’s obviously some deep biological thing.

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21 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Got a text from my neighbor Sunday morning, asking for advice on how to handle a big snake on his porch. I put on pants and walked on over. His whole family was a bit freaked, because it had been crawling up the front door when they got home from HEB.
It had crawled down to the actual porch itself - pretty 3.5 foot rat snake.
I told him they could just poke it with a stick to get it to move along - he says, umm, how?
I take a stick, lift the snake gently, snake gets a bit pissed and rears up. I let him calm down, then move him along, he slithers around the side of the house.
I remind the neighbor that’s a good snake, you want him around. If you ever need to clear him out, now you know how.
It still kind of amazes me how some people have a visceral fear of all snakes, but it’s obviously some deep biological thing.

Spraying with a garden hose will move them along as well.

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25 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Got a text from my neighbor Sunday morning, asking for advice on how to handle a big snake on his porch. I put on pants and walked on over. His whole family was a bit freaked, because it had been crawling up the front door when they got home from HEB.
It had crawled down to the actual porch itself - pretty 3.5 foot rat snake.
I told him they could just poke it with a stick to get it to move along - he says, umm, how?
I take a stick, lift the snake gently, snake gets a bit pissed and rears up. I let him calm down, then move him along, he slithers around the side of the house.
I remind the neighbor that’s a good snake, you want him around. If you ever need to clear him out, now you know how.
It still kind of amazes me how some people have a visceral fear of all snakes, but it’s obviously some deep biological thing.

Lol do you also help him put on pants in the morning?

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AL. They're in the bend of a major river, about three miles to the river in three directions.  I grew up with alligators either coming from the river to raise young on our land or alligators walking through the yard to get to wherever they were going.  

When I was around twelve, we had a mama gator dig a hole in the swamp on our property to have her babies.  My dad went and caught a couple for my sister and I to take to school.  The mama would come up out of the hole hissing because my dad was disturbing the babies.  The babies make a grunting sound to communicate with their mother.  Kind of like an unt unt unt techno beat.

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